Obituary: François Ponchaud, French Missionary Who Alerted the World to the Khmer Rouge

Ponchaud inside the French embassy in Phnom Penh. Photo: Will Conquer.

François Ponchaud, the French missionary who was the first to alert the world to the realities of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge régime in the 1970s, has died.

My obituary appears in The Diplomat.

https://thediplomat.com/2025/01/obituary-francois-ponchaud-french-missionary-who-alerted-the-world-to-the-khmer-rouge/